The Lion and the Nurse is a story in the tradition of My Big Fat Greek Wedding - a sweet love story replete with a matchmaking mother, intrigue, and humor. Cassiani, a nurse, rushes to the Greek island of Kos to nurse her ailing mother, who had a heart attack. In the process, she also ends up nursing Mrs. Lukas, her mother's employer, and meeting her nephew Leo. With the hilarious antics of her matchmaking mother, the love between Leo and Cassiani grows, but the obstacles from Leo's aunt also grow, for she has other plans for him. Will Leo's love for Cassiani be strong enough to overcome his aunt's grudge against her?

The Lion and the Nurse

Literature & Fiction

Apostolides, Patty

Erotica

iUniverse, Inc.

Helena's Choice - a story in the tradition of Victoria Holt - is filled with adventure, intrigue, and romance. Helena Cadfield returns to Oxford in the summer of 1837 after being away three years at a Parisian boarding school . She looks forward to seeing her father, Dr. Cadfield, as well as Allan Murphy, a young man whom she has had a crush on all these years. A letter from her father awaits her, apologizing for not being there to greet her. He explains that while in Greece, he excavated the foundation of her Greek mother's family property in Nemea, with the intentions of rebuilding the war-damaged mansion, and discovered ancient treasures in the process. He asks that she join him in retrieving the treasures. Her joy in going to Greece is cut short, for at the bottom of the letter is a note from the local Greek priest, informing her that he found her father dead with the letter in his arms. He sent the letter after burying her father. Allan Murphy, a physician, shows up at Cadfield House to give his condolences for her deceased father. He treats Helena not as the tomboy she used to be, but as a beautiful young lady that she has become. He is interested in courting her. Helena is happy with Allan's attentions, but is caught in a dilemma, for she must see about the property in Greece. Cadfield House now belongs to her father's cousin, Mr. Weldon, the next heir. She is penniless, for her father did not leave a will. Determined to become financially independent, Helena takes a position as a governess in hopes of earning enough money to travel to Greece. Her charge is a strong-headed girl who does not want a governess. Helena asks Allan to wait for her, but will he wait? When she arrives in war-torn Greece as a governess, where King Otto of Bavaria rules, she encounters Dr. Aristotle Mastoras, an archaeologist. The archaeological society in Athens has hired him to excavate on her Greek property. They join forces in finding the treasures on her property. Working alongside the Albanian laborers and Aristotle, Helena finds peace. Yet she must battle the dark forces that threaten to take everything away from her. She hires her bandit cousins, musket-yielding mountain men, to guard the place. In addition, the burgeoning love she feels for Aristotle threatens to topple all her carefully laid out plans with Allan.

Helena's Choice: A Novel

Children's Books

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

Independently published

It is 1831. When sixteen year old Lily, a gypsy who dances and sells trinkets in Caen, France, finds out the truth about her hidden past through her gypsy grandmother, she is shocked. She learns that she is not a gypsy, but a daughter of a Greek heiress and wealthy English nobleman.

The Greek Maiden And the English Lord (Greek Edition)

Literary

Seaburn Books

The Greek Maiden and the English Lord

A "Happily Ever After" book in the tradition of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, and Emma, The Greek Maiden and the English Lord is a historical romance that delves into prejudice and principles - and the fight for one's identity. In 1831, sixteen year old gypsy Lily embarks on a journey to England in search of her parents. Her cousins in England realize how little she knows about being a lady and send her to a boarding school in York to learn refinement and await her father's return from the Indies. There, she falls in love with Edward Grant, an English lord, who is engaged to another. News of her father dying in a shipwreck sets Lily's whole world reeling. Penniless, she is forced to work at the boarding school as a maid to pay her tuition. Her gypsy past comes to the surface to haunt her. Will Edward's love for Lily be strong enough to overcome the prejudices of the upper English class?

Genre Fiction

Virtualbookworm.com Publishing

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